Time strikes quick. As 2019 yields to 2020, the world appears to be rushing up at an unstoppable tempo. Issues are altering quick right here in Tallahassee too. Suppose of how far our neighborhood has come up to now ten years then think about the place this new decade may take us. There isn’t any approach to know the way issues will pan out, however we are able to presume that within the years that lay forward Tallahassee and Leon County will proceed to alter dramatically. You will need to think about our position as enterprise minded residents on this oncoming period of change.
Right here on the Chamber we’re targeted on making a imaginative and prescient for the long run of enterprise within the Capital Metropolis whereas shaping the broader neighborhood in ways in which profit us all. We imagine the work occurring in the present day will tremendously affect the extra affluent future we hope to forge. Our Chamber board and different leaders imagine that with the momentum we’ve the potential to construct as a neighborhood within the coming years can carry our standing on this planet. There are already quite a few tasks of nice significance being each constructed and regarded and if we do this work nicely, collectively we’d simply be capable of reshape how the world thinks in regards to the place all of us love a lot.
Our neighborhood has great potential, however with the intention to obtain our greatest attainable future we should first be keen to see the extent of what we are able to develop into. This has lengthy been a motivation for our Neighborhood Management Journeys. Prior to now decade, our Chamber has visited quite a few cities – Boulder, Nashville and Greenville for instance, to be taught and take warning from different communities which have deliberate and impressed excessive affect development. Taking such journeys to be taught from different locations is vital, however as we stand on the edge of a brand new decade the time has come to transform concepts into actuality proper right here at house.
With that in thoughts, we’re dedicated to working with our neighborhood companions to make this subsequent decade one of an important and impactful in our historical past. Fortuitously, we’ve two vital milestones to assist us discover our motivation and measure our success alongside the way in which. In 2023, our Chamber will flip 100 years outdated. As we put together to have fun a century of being neighborhood champions and civically engaged companies, this group stays targeted on how we are able to make Tallahassee a spot that individuals need to stay, and firms need to find. The next yr, in 2024, Tallahassee and Leon County will each be recognizing our neighborhood bicentennial. Within the practically 200 years since our house was declared the Capital Metropolis of Florida; our residents have fastidiously crafted a neighborhood in which there’s a lot to be proud of. Now’s the time to start out serious about what variety of Capital Metropolis we’ll develop into over the following 100 years and what variety of Chamber we have to be to assist information optimistic, significant, and engaging development right here.
On our approach to the Chamber centennial and neighborhood bicentennial, we should always think about what financial alternatives exists right here, how we appeal to and retain expertise and most significantly what variety of world we’re creating for our kids. These questions are what at the moment drive our Chamber leaders within the numerous discussions we often participate in with stakeholders throughout the neighborhood. We’re very blessed to stay in a spot that gives us a lot to take pleasure in as half of our top quality of life, however we should press ahead and attempt to do higher for the entire neighborhood. There may be nonetheless a lot work to be completed if we hope to make our future one the place all residents imagine they will obtain a secure and affluent existence.
As Chamber members, volunteers, and workers, we should all insist that our neighborhood be one which measures itself with a need to attain excellence in all that we do. We should always endeavor to encourage our neighbors, aspire for greatness, and domesticate a tradition wherein all of us spend money on constructing town everyone knows and hope we are able to develop into. If we need to see Tallahassee emerge as one of America’s greatest mid-sized cities, then we should undertake a brand new mantra. As we glance within the mirror every day, all of us should inform ourselves that “It begins with us.”
We every possess the flexibility to make a distinction in our hometown and as we propel ourselves into a brand new decade with vital milestones forward, it’s essential that all of us embody the hopes we’ve for our future and lead by instance. There may be little time to waste and no room for debating if we must be so bold. We, as a neighborhood, merely don’t have any alternative however to excel.
When individuals need to discover one of the best of Tallahassee and see indicators of what we might develop into, they need to not should look any additional than the Chamber of Commerce. We’re the group who can deliver individuals collectively and set a course for spectacular accomplishment. The generations who comply with us will decide how nicely we do and as time strikes quick, so ought to we. The explanations that individuals be a part of a Chamber of Commerce are many, however we prefer to imagine that one of an important is that our members need to help work that issues. As workers, we’re empowered by our Board of Administrators and lots of volunteers to work on behalf of our members in a fashion that each lives as much as their beliefs and makes them proud to be half of one thing impactful. With the arrival of a brand new decade and the potential for a lot of nice outcomes, we’re excited to work with so many individuals, organizations, and companies who need to make a distinction. We’re additionally dedicated to doing our half in making our house as nice as it might probably and must be.
